For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the Disability support scheme can be found at the Disability Liaison Unit Website:http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/disability/

Coordinator

Dr Michael Kirley

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Many services reside on servers accessed over the Internet, with the user's own computer being used only to provide an interface. Examples include search engines and social networking sites. This subject introduces students to writing such applications. Topics covered include: introduction to networks, and to some simple protocols; operating systems principles, including interrupts, the user/kernel distinction, virtual memory and security; how to use an operating system, including how to create, manage and communicate between processes;how to write simple server programs, including server programming models, web services, concurrency, and distributed systems.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:

Demonstrate their knowledge of operating system and networking technologies from the programmer's perspective

Apply this knowledge to select appropriate tools and technologies for a problem at hand; and

Build simple server applications

Assessment:

Project work during semester, expected to take about 36 hours (30%)

A mid-semester test (10%)

And a 2-hour end-of-semester written examination (60%)

To pass the subject, students must obtain at least:

50% overall

15/30 in project work

And 35/70 in the mid-semester test and end-of-semester written examination combined

Prescribed Texts:

None

Breadth Options:

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses: